The virgin muse. Being a collection of poems from our most celebrated English poets. [Ed.] by J. Greenwood1722 |
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... wou'd another's Praise indite , Is by her Glass inftructed how to write . Waller . VIII . Under a Lady's Picture . SUCH Helen was ; and who can blame the Boy , That in so bright a Flame confum'd his Troy ? But had like Virtue shin'd in ...
... wou'd another's Praise indite , Is by her Glass inftructed how to write . Waller . VIII . Under a Lady's Picture . SUCH Helen was ; and who can blame the Boy , That in so bright a Flame confum'd his Troy ? But had like Virtue shin'd in ...
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... wou'd not fpeak . Clorinda came among the rest , And the too kind Concern express'd , And ask'd the Reason of his Woe ? She ask'd , but with an Air and Mein , That made it easily forefeen , She fear'd too much to know . The Shepherd ...
... wou'd not fpeak . Clorinda came among the rest , And the too kind Concern express'd , And ask'd the Reason of his Woe ? She ask'd , but with an Air and Mein , That made it easily forefeen , She fear'd too much to know . The Shepherd ...
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... wou'd take no more : If you thought Fame but empty Breath ; I , Phillis , but a perjur'd Whore . Mr. Prior . XLIII . Baucis and Philemon . Out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphosis . OVID pursuing the Deeds of Theseus ; relates how ...
... wou'd take no more : If you thought Fame but empty Breath ; I , Phillis , but a perjur'd Whore . Mr. Prior . XLIII . Baucis and Philemon . Out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphosis . OVID pursuing the Deeds of Theseus ; relates how ...
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... wou'd lay Upon thy accidential sway ; Because thou dost sometimes presume Into the ableft Heads to come , That often Men of Thoughts refin'd , Impatient of unequal Sense , Such flow Returns , where they so much dispense , Retiring from ...
... wou'd lay Upon thy accidential sway ; Because thou dost sometimes presume Into the ableft Heads to come , That often Men of Thoughts refin'd , Impatient of unequal Sense , Such flow Returns , where they so much dispense , Retiring from ...
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... Wou'd in Variety be fair And shifting hastily the Scene , From Light , impertinent , and vain , Affumes a foft and melancholy Air , And of her Eyes rebates the wand'ring Fires .; The careless Posture , and the Head reclin'd , The ...
... Wou'd in Variety be fair And shifting hastily the Scene , From Light , impertinent , and vain , Affumes a foft and melancholy Air , And of her Eyes rebates the wand'ring Fires .; The careless Posture , and the Head reclin'd , The ...
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Page 158 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 112 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 125 - War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Page 158 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 22 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Page 136 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Page 136 - To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave...
Page 116 - Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Page 143 - Excelling brass, but more excell'd by gold. Then Summer, Autumn, Winter did appear, And Spring was but a season of the year. The sun his annual course obliquely made, Good days contracted, and enlarged the bad.
Page 10 - tis not a Jest Admir'd with Laughter at a feast, Nor florid Talk which can that Title gain; The Proofs of Wit for ever must remain.